Super 8 Review The story of what happens when half a dozen middle-school kids set out to make a student film in 1979 Ohio and end up enmeshed in something much bigger and scarier, “Super 8” does not lack for potent elements. Its two lead teens have a fine on-screen chemistry, and all the film's big action sequences are faultlessly executed. But “Super 8's” elements do not jell into a satisfying whole. Although the directors have been personally close for decades—they first connected when Spielberg hired the then-15-year-old Abrams to restore his own 8mm films—their styles do not necessarily mesh. It's a dissonance that's prefigured when the logos of their production companiesAbrams' cranky Bad Robot and Spielberg's lyrical Amblin—spiritually clash on-screen.
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